SwaSan SS: Sweet Deals (Completed) - Page 39

Originally posted by: CogitoErgoSum

Nynu 🤗🤗

Viji, 🤗🤗

Don't know what I would do without dear pals like you. 🤗 Am 2/3rds the way through typing chapter 1, I reckon I should be able to post this afternoon. 

Have already read and re read it - will unres soon

But coming to the important part...The Spice of Life, in the most awesome Sweet Deals ever. 😉😳 I just loved the quote from William Arthur Wand about the different aspects of life. Very fitting and apt here. 👏

I loved this quote too- I had earlier picked on a different quote but was not too happy with it, this quote sort of just clicked so am glad you liked it

I just loved the last chapter...😳 Lakshya's growth in terms of his character, his resolve and integrity ...Ragini feeling that he was indeed Sanskaar's brother in the way he was scrupulously giving her space and time to make her decision 😆😉

Yes, Lakshya has truly evolved, not difficult considering he has an excellent role model in his brother, Sanskaar, and a very good reason - to win Ragini over. A great combination, which proved quite irresistible to Ragini😉

The RagLak moments and Ragini's stand regarding the joint wedding: fabulous. I was just going 😆☺️ 🤣at Lakshya's slightly breathless query to Ragini after their bone melting kiss. "You wanted to say something?" 😉 I was like...I think you both already spoke volumes through body language.  😆😉

Ragini's stand on the joint wedding - would be what every girl would feel - except Swara who is a little lost in her world of selflessness😆 and even if she felt it a bit, she would immediately stifle it. 

Lakshya - must be a bit confused, he did not think that "read my lips" would be such a literal experience when it came to Ragini 🤣a🤣a

And that lovely nugget you put in about how "Anjan Gupta" had felt that connect, that pull towards the intriguing, lovely girl so enraptured by his music...even before Swara met "Bipul" and "Anjan" pursued Kavita...👏👏👏. In fact, Swara too, had felt a pull towards "Anjan", a keen admiration for him, even before she met "Bipul". 

With the soul connect they share, how could they not notice each other - irrespective of the names they take, their souls would recognise each other. So he did notice her and she did lose herself to his music - which was also an echo of his soul

Such a deft touch there, with so much nuance, subtlety and scope for philosophical interpretation...👏 We could discuss for pages and pages and pages I guess, about the lovely, fascinating concept you sketched: fate versus free will, the concept of soulmates...is there really one special person out there for us? Whom we are predestined to meet? Or do we find someone, feel a spark for them which we then work on, transforming the relationship into one of adoration, trust, respect and faith? Or is destiny after all, multiple paths in the road through life...our fate being set in stone by the path we trod on, and the ones we choose to avoid? 

That is my favourite topic - as I mentioned in the foreword - I have an eternal fascination for the concept of "Chance, Choice and the Inevitable Consequence. There are times when we do not take a chance which could lead to what we believe, albeit in a very different way, or we act in a way which we think would lead us to what we want but end up differently. As you rightly said - fate vs free will - we would need pages to discuss but could never come to a conclusion. There are too many incidents and too many tales out in the world, people who believed and found their soulmates, people who took a chance on one tiny spark and found their lives transformed by that one person. But then again, if the different roads we take, lead to the same end, are our lived predestined? What is the use of free will?

It was so lovely to have Sanskaar and Swara's slightly differing view on soulmates...Swara be lives in the concept absolutely, while Sanskaar has some logical doubts. But they both know, without the shadow of doubt, that they are inextricably linked, there is a connect between them which defies easy explanation.

Sanskaar not believing in that concept is in keeping with his character - practical and down to earth. Swara, as most of us avid readers are, lives and breathes the soulmate connection theory. But then, when one gets down to the facts, they had a dispute over the definition only, the truth of what they mean for each other is the same - both agree that they had been and will be inextricably linked.

And the soothsayer's earlier forecast 😳😉...Eyes of brown hue, hands/fingers that play music too...? I am going to lie awake at nights now, wondering just who she (you!!) meant, and to whom it was directed! 😆😆 Man...did it describe Sanskaar or Lucky...and if it was Lucky...was she cautioning Swara or Ragini? 😃😳

That was my intention from the very beginning - a slight obfuscation - whom did the gypsy mean and what exactly did she mean? Was she simply intending that the meeting would change their lives beyond their imagination, which is why she cautioned them? Or was she hinting that even if they had selected the "right" partners then, the road would not have been so smooth? There will be no answers - though it did serve to start their tale, with Swara taking a chance on those words and Ragini not even remembering them as soon as she exited the tent😊

Can't wait for the Epilogue dear...have you decided the title for that yet? 😊

Title and quote in place (I cannot start a chapter peacefully until I have that in place - and when I am not sure of either, I have a little difficulty drafting - another one of my libran eccentricities😆)

Loads and Loads of Love 🤗🤗

Viji 

Originally posted by: iam_aheli_98

Hey dearest Nyna,🤗
Awesome update!!!👍🏼 Loved RagLak's moment.😊 Finally Ragini forgave Laksh.😉 Their kiss.😳 Ragini's reason not to have a joint wedding was so good and touchy.😃😳 RagLak again kissed.😆☺️  Liked them teasing each other.😆 Loved they way Sanskar made Ragini understood her fear that AP doesn't like her so much.😳 Now finally my SwaSan.😃 SwaSan had a lovely conversation.😃 O wow!!!! Sanskar saw Swara at party and instantly was attracted towards her!!!😃😳 But Dadi!! He couldn't meet her due to Dadi.😆 SwaSan r indeed soulmate!!!😳 And loved their kiss at the end!!!😳☺️☺️ Loved the update so much!!❤️ Update the epilogue soon.😳 Thanks for the pm.😃
With love,
Aheli.

Originally posted by: blindassassin

Nyna

I have been postponing my comment since yday. Goodbyes are very painful dear. I hate to comment on the last chapter of any work. Wish it goes on and on...

Nyna what can I say, the SS was as sweet as the recipes and title , it had. An altogether fresh plot different from the series, interestingly laid out with a sweet swara, sanskar and Ragini. All the characters be it the spoil brat laksh ,strict dadi or even the toughest devil all had some innate goodness in them. None of the characters were evil. Yet you managed to keep our attention glued to it. I loved the way you ended each chapter.Calm and serene.I am sure you are a person who are as sweet as the characters in the story.please write more.

Love you, Veena.

Originally posted by: The.Lannister

Nyna 🤗

So we have come to the end of this story😭 but chalo at least we have the epilogue to look forward to😃

Yes - the end of the tale - and the Epilogue to completely wrap it up😊

OK now tell me Nyna, do you love Ragz more than Swara? (current show scenario doesnt count -_-) Because I loved how you have portrayed Ragz in this SS. In fact forget Swara, I liked her more than Sunny!😲😆 What a genuine girl...I cannot stop myself from repeating this😳 I loved her for asking for some time & then asking SwaSan to not wait for her in the last chapter & just when I thought she couldnt get any more perfect in this chapter she refuses to have a joint wedding. And the reasons she gives...👏 I love her...thats all I can say at this moment😆

Do I love Ragini more than Swara - that is a very difficult question😆 - but yes I find her layered complex character very very very fascinating- (completely overlooking most of her characterisation in the serial - she has been butchered beyond recognition) and unpredictable too - especially when compared to the sweet and selfless Swara with her always ready to forgive attitude (an admirable virtue but sometimes very exasperating one - if you get my drift😉) So I let myself go when I wrote this tale and as I wrote on Shru's post, a part of me wondered if I was writing a little too much about Ragini for a tale that was supposed to be only about SwaSan😊 But it is the ultimate compliment I can get, as a writer, when someone like you says that you liked Ragini more than Sunnyboy☺️☺️

Her reasons for the joint wedding were irrefutable and her not wanting one was what any girl would want - a rare minority would want to share their very special day with another couple

So I was right😡 Had Daadi not come that day SwaSan would have met so many years ago😡 Daadi 😡 😡 😡 And then neither of them would have had the painful experiences of Kavita & Lakshya & could have crooned about being each other's first & everlasting love😳 But chalo, like the song goes, mil jaate hai jo bane ek duje ke vaaste!😳

Oh, yes, and so says Sunny boy also - if Dadi had not come when she did, they would have known each other a little longer - but then they were not the people they are now, so maybe they might not have even clicked - sometimes even when the people are right the timing is not - so I think if they had met then, they would still have a longer and tougher journey to reach where they have reached today. But as the Bard says - "All is well that ends well," and they finally are where they belong - with each other😊

Originally posted by: Bennet.Lizzy

Res🤗

Dear Nyna 🤗

 Thankyou. For chapter 11. Have been waiting for it badly. Though I'm not so happy for it indicates the approaching end of some really delectable servings from  Nyna's Kitchen. 😳 They will be really missed. 

I'm sure in the coming days whenever I chance upon a hot cup of cappuccino/fresh bake of cookies/ those iced cupcakes I'll always remember this place. With rows of tables, bathing in ambient sunlight, a touch of rain, mixed with aromas of coffee, cocoa, butter, vanilla and strawberries. These will be forever cherished.

And so will be your Swasan and raglak. May be ill even look at the those serving ladies too and find for any semblance to a particular Mrs Das. 😊

Believe me, I have this image of the place so strongly printed into my memory. 😊

And when I read the above (actually re read it, a number of times😳) I had a big goofy smile plastered over my face and this is how I have spent the last couple of days:

After all, there can be no greater compliment that being told that my tale is imprinted in your mind, in a nice way too.😳

And now coming to the tale. 

Ragini needs to be applauded here undoubtedly. Firstly, for the way she stood up against the idea of a shared wedding and secondly for putting it out so aptly and with measured words as to why she is not okay with it. She is such a sweet heart and I can't stop loving her more everytime she does one of those bold moves of hers.

Ragini - I am absolutely fascinated with her (notwithstanding that it is SwaSan that I ship😉) and detested the way the serial butchered her. She became unbearable to watch from that malkin track. True to her character, she has grown from being girl who silently bemoaned her life at Dadi's house to a mature woman who knows what she wants and what needs to be done - a very balanced individual who is indeed quite lovable. And her reasons for not wanting a joint wedding, nobody could refute them😆

She really loves swara a lot. And Sanskaar is much more than a friend or jethji. It's a brotherly bond. This Sanskaar and Ragini bond doesn't ever stop to sweetly surprise me everytime you bring them into picture. The way he saw right into her apprehension and picked up the right words to lay off her insecurities while not flinching away from giving her the facts and also reassuring her that till then , till Annapoorna accepts her for what she is, she has them who love her so much. Such a sweet brother Sanskaar is. Lovely piece of conversation that was.

Ragini here loves her sister above everything else, maybe excepting Sanksaar. For her, he is a best friend, a brother and a father figure all rolled into one - and one that is completely reciprocated by him. Which is why he knew why she was scared and also what to tell her to put her mind at ease. That is the best bond two people can share - honesty to state the facts and empathy to instill courage to face the truth. Most would have simply brushed off her concerns in a bid to allay her fears, but admitting that she is right and yet giving her the courage to understand that her fears, though not baseless, would be overcome with time and the love of the other family members - that is something only Sanskaar could do.

Lakshya did come a long way again. Knowing exactly what to do. Proving himself as sanskar's bro. I loved how Ragini said that to her self. And the monologue remembering sanskar's words. The woman is so strong. Cvs should take a leaf I say. Really commendable .

Lakshya has come a long way - made a little easy as he had a role model in Sanskaar to emulate and a very strong reason - he had win over Ragini. And Ragini, how could she not do what her best friend says, once she realised that Lakshya had redeemed himself, all she had to do was to let him know that he was forgiven. Guess she took the saying, "read my lips" as a literal way of letting him know what she wanted.😉

I loved the Swasan conversation. They way he divulged the little secret he carried around all these days, just a day before wedding. the hole conversation reminded me of the dialogue Sanskaar says to shomi on the night of karwachauth. "These little things bring happiness to us.  we do them out of love , So in that case  why would I not believe in them". He didn't believe in soulmate but deep with in he knew that she is the one. And if agreeing to her theory brings her happiness he would then happily do it. But still he would have been happier to have met them the same day too.. But swara immediately jumps in taking away that little disappointment, stating that may be they are destined to meet this way after learning from their mistakes. I observe that try are so complementing here. In there reassurances while the words themselves reflect how deeply they love each other. 

The SwaSan conversation - it did bring so many possibilities - right? What would have happened if they had met that day? Maybe if Dadi had dragged Ragini out first, would she have fallen for Lakshya ? What would that mean? So many questions ??? 

And Sanskaar's disbelief in the soulmate concept is a reflection of him - practical and down to earth. But then he will never deny that both he and Swara are where they are meant to be - together. So it would be more of a disagreement on a conceptual basis. And as you rightly noted, the moment Sanskaar states wistfully that if only they had met earlier, an echo of her soulmate concept,  Swara turns out to be practical and comments that even if they did, they might have had an even more arduous journey to reach where they are today. So maybe they should simply be glad that they are finally together. 

Is there a chapter on wedding. Can't we have a wedding and then an epilogue?? I'll miss these Nyna .. So badly.. But again I tell myself may be there a chocolate fudge cake coming. Or even a death by chocolate. Or may be both. What say??

No chapter on weddings (too many details and dresses to be described, which is way beyond me) will wrap up with the epilogue - what would that be - wait for the weekend

Wanting more. Will always be

Love

N

Ps. Typed from my mobile, ignore typos.